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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to behoves in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
behoves (0) - 1 freq
behaves (1) - 3 freq
shoves (2) - 20 freq
becomes (2) - 42 freq
behaved (2) - 9 freq
beleves (2) - 1 freq
behave (2) - 37 freq
removes (2) - 2 freq
behuives (2) - 1 freq
beloved (2) - 25 freq
droves (3) - 10 freq
behest (3) - 2 freq
belyve (3) - 33 freq
photes (3) - 1 freq
holes (3) - 71 freq
repones (3) - 59 freq
bevels (3) - 1 freq
hovels (3) - 1 freq
beluved (3) - 1 freq
chores (3) - 9 freq
behere (3) - 2 freq
bodes (3) - 3 freq
memores (3) - 1 freq
nerves (3) - 43 freq
remover (3) - 3 freq
behoves (0) - 1 freq
behaves (1) - 3 freq
behuives (2) - 1 freq
behave (3) - 37 freq
beleves (3) - 1 freq
shoves (3) - 20 freq
behaved (3) - 9 freq
believes (4) - 17 freq
hooves (4) - 21 freq
behavin (4) - 4 freq
buhos (4) - 1 freq
heaves (4) - 2 freq
beehive (4) - 1 freq
behavious (4) - 1 freq
hives (4) - 2 freq
braves (4) - 3 freq
becomes (4) - 42 freq
removes (4) - 2 freq
behauds (4) - 1 freq
bhoys (4) - 13 freq
behuvit (4) - 1 freq
beloved (4) - 25 freq
shaves (4) - 15 freq
behufe (5) - 1 freq
echoes (5) - 26 freq
SoundEx code - B120
bobby's - 5 freq
bawbag - 13 freq
bob's - 4 freq
bobbies - 31 freq
boobs - 7 freq
bowfs - 2 freq
boabby's - 1 freq
bawbees - 23 freq
behuives - 1 freq
baby's - 6 freq
bypass - 10 freq
baffies - 21 freq
babies - 28 freq
by-pass - 2 freq
behoves - 1 freq
babbie's - 1 freq
bobs - 9 freq
bawbee's - 14 freq
bobbie's - 3 freq
baabees - 1 freq
babs - 2 freq
bawbags - 2 freq
behaves - 3 freq
bab's - 1 freq
behavious - 1 freq
baabie's - 1 freq
boab's - 3 freq
babbies - 13 freq
baffie's - 5 freq
baffies' - 1 freq
bobbies' - 1 freq
babes - 5 freq
befaas - 2 freq
babookie - 1 freq
'baby's - 1 freq
boabs - 1 freq
bowffs - 1 freq
baps - 5 freq
babicka - 1 freq
buffs - 4 freq
bipoc - 1 freq
baw-bee's - 1 freq
bappy's - 3 freq
babe's - 1 freq
beeps - 3 freq
€œboobs - 1 freq
bapu-ji - 1 freq
babaza - 1 freq
bbhvkh - 1 freq
bipass - 1 freq
bafgoweeye - 1 freq
biebs - 1 freq
bawbaws - 1 freq
'babies' - 1 freq
babys - 1 freq
MetaPhone code - BHFS
behuives - 1 freq
behoves - 1 freq
behaves - 3 freq
behavious - 1 freq
BEHOVES
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.191080 milliseconds
The Levenshtein distance is the number of characters you have to replace, insert or delete to transform one word into another, its useful for detecting typos and alternative spellings
Time to execute Double Levenshtein function - 0.343333 milliseconds
In a stroke of genius, this runs the Levenshtein function twice, once without vowels and adds the distance together, giving double weight to consonants.
Time to execute SoundEx function - 0.058395 milliseconds
Soundex is a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound, as pronounced in English. The goal is for homophones to be encoded to the same representation so that they can be matched despite minor differences in spelling.
Time to execute MetaPhone function - 0.037412 milliseconds
Metaphone is a phonetic algorithm, published by Lawrence Philips in 1990, for indexing words by their English pronunciation.[1] It fundamentally improves on the Soundex algorithm by using information about variations and inconsistencies in English spelling and pronunciation to produce a more accurate encoding, which does a better job of matching words and names which sound similar.
Time to execute Manually curated function - 0.000826 milliseconds
Manual Curation uses a lookup table / lexicon which has been created by hand which links words to their lemmas, and includes obvious typos and spelling variations. Not all words are covered.